SEROCS — The Next (review)

SEROCS — The Next album cover Album · 2013 · Technical Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
J-Man
Entitled The Next, the second album from Mexican technical death metal act Serocs offers listeners a tasty platter of complex brutal metal in the classic style. Although you'll hear a few bass patterns or guitar solos that bring newer acts like Obscura and Beyond Creation to mind, the album's raw production and utterly suffocating atmospheres reek of a decidedly 'old school' scent from start to finish. The Next showcases plenty of complicated riffs and odd rhythmic patterns without feeling like a vehicle for technical showoffs, and I think this feature even makes the album appealing to fans of Floridian old school death metal acts like Morbid Angel and Deicide.

Although not terribly innovative, it's fair to say that Serocs have developed their own sound on The Next; folks who miss the days when tech-death had more of an unpolished edge may want to investigate what this Mexican death squad has to offer!
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